Denver airport.

In 1990 I fell asleep in the coffee shop of Denver airport Colorado USA. When I awoke the emptying shop at 6am was full at 7:30 am and a fiftyish woman in a lovely blue suit was sitting alongside me. I had bought a coffee (which was now cold, and two bags of choc chip cookies (one for now and one for the plane).  The cookies were in between the two of us, half eaten. The woman reached over, opened the cookies, took one out, and began to eat it. I thought, "What unmitigated gall and nerve that she would do that!" In response, i reached in, got one, ate it myself, asserting my ownership of the said cookies. She just smiled then reached in and got another. Three times we went back and forth until there was one cookie left in the bottom, which I left for her. She got up and walked away. I had never seen a person as arrogant as that. Later on the plane I reached down into my carry on bag and found one and a half bags of cookies! I thought for a moment. Then "oh no! It was me who must have appeared arrogant. Those cookies were hers!" I immediately looked down behind me in the plane to go apologise. And then, with a blush, hoped she wasn't on this plane. 

Sometimes we judge other people because of our sheer ignorance. Romans 14:4 says, "Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand." Another reason we unmercifully judge other people and fail to tolerate them is that we're insensitive. We don't love as we ought. But Jesus did not come to condemn. He came to save. As John 3:17says, "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved."

  • When was a time you assumed the worst about another person but found out you were wrong?
  • What are some ways you can remind yourself that God is the only right judge of people?

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